Tanglewood teh Kurtz telecaster

jcyphe · Post by **jcyphe** » Mon Jul 20, 2009 7:32 pm

Reece wrote:
JJLipton wrote:wasn't kurt cobain's telecaster blue? why does it resemble his? I haven't listened to nirvana in years
[krudtznerd]his blue tele was a japanse one he painted blue with house paint, his suburst tele was made for him fender i think in 93/94 (i forget).[/krudtznerd]

I thought the sunburst and the blue were the same one and he just painted the sunburst one blue?

Reece · Post by **Reece** » Mon Jul 20, 2009 7:34 pm

he had a sunburst one painted blue, fender sent out a new one to replace it and his tech modified it a bunch. he got it just before he died i think, which is why all the photos of him with it are grainy and shit.

Gavin · Post by **Gavin** » Mon Jul 20, 2009 7:40 pm

kurtsequipment.com have interviews with his guitar tech who said that he has a sunburst tele which he painted blue with house paint, also Fender sent him a new one with sunburst and double bound body with white scratchplate (which is why I'm guessing noirie said this one had the kurdtz) but he only had it for like two weeks before he shot himself and for most of that time he was in/out of re-hab and hiding in his old house. So I don't really feel that sunburst tele's with double binding and a white scrathplate = the kurdtz.

paul_ · Post by **paul_** » Tue Jul 21, 2009 6:10 am

A website called rockstarguitars [I think...] had really good pics of kurt's second tele awhile back.

It was a '62 Custom re-issue, double-bound sunburst, but Earnie replaced the bridge with a gotoh 6-saddle humbucker-cut one and installed a JB, replaced the mint pickguard with a white one and installed a chrome-covered PAF. Kurt was using it on home demos he was making with Eric Erlandson and Pat Smear, and Earnie says Kurt told him it was his new favorite.

Ty · Post by Ty » Tue Jul 21, 2009 6:49 am

Paul, do you mean this one?

paul_ · Post by **paul_** » Tue Jul 21, 2009 7:40 pm